QUESTION
What tracking efforts are in place for the civil service ambassador program's outreach initiatives?
1:06:33
·
108 sec
The council staff explains that DCAS has implemented measures to track the effectiveness of outreach events aimed at educating the public about civil service career opportunities.
- Over 209 outreach events were held, reaching approximately 25,600 individuals, with 86 events qualifying under the local law's criteria.
- A field has been added to the city's personnel system for candidates to self-report where they learned about job opportunities.
- Agencies now have a field to indicate how new hires were discovered through job-related events.
- These additions aim to enhance tracking of how job seekers learn about openings and the impact of the outreach programs.
Carmen N. De La Rosa
1:06:33
I wanna ask about the civil service ambassador program, which was a bill that we passed in in collaboration last term.
1:06:41
The agency reported that in 2023 participated in 86 in person outreach events and 70 virtual events.
1:06:49
Does the agency track the number of people who have received job offers or who learned about civil service opportunities to these outreach programs?
Katrina Porter
1:06:56
So I'll turn this over to my colleague Sylvia Montalvan.
UNKNOWN
1:06:59
Sure.
1:07:00
Thank you.
1:07:01
So yes, thank you for the question on that.
1:07:04
So we've built upon our existing and ongoing efforts to educate the public and different communities about the civil service careers through the pathways identified in that local law.
1:07:16
And with so just to reiterate, we did have over 209 outreach events, and those have reached 25,600 people.
1:07:26
And of those events, 86 were actually qualifying pathways under the local law.
1:07:33
It is important also to just indicate that with respect to the tracking, the number of job seekers, decast doesn't have oversight, of course, into the hiring process, as we mentioned before, of the agencies and the promotions because they're decentralized.
1:07:49
And their extension of those job offers.
1:07:51
But notwithstanding, we have added a field in our city personnel system, so that candidates could be able to indicate where and self report where they learned about the job opportunity that will help us track that more accurately.
1:08:05
Mhmm.
1:08:05
And we've also added a field for agencies to use for them to indicate how their new hires were found then through what job related events.
1:08:17
So, you know, we'll be able to to to be able to track better that.
